I'm not much faster at implementing features than before AI, despite heavily relying on agentic coding (95% of code is ai generated), but I've had significantly fewer bugs in production
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95% of code is ai generated
In the thread “You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand”, replying to this comment
Helped: Spending more time on design, experimentation, and refactoring.
Got in the way: Coding skills atrophying and implementation speed not increasing.
… This is very similar for software engineers. I'm not much faster at implementing features than before AI, despite heavily relying on agentic coding (95% of code is ai generated), but I've had significantly fewer bugs in production, less feature change requests (because w spend much more time designing/experimenting), and we are able to drive-by refactors or vulnerability fixes we would have grudgingly ignored before. My coding skills are atrophying, but that was never interesting to me anyway. …